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Skippy McPants posted:So, is this show good? I was thinking about bringing what's on Netflix, but then I saw it goes for a Chronicles of Narnia style of thing and got kinda hesitant. I watched it over the holidays and fell in love with it. It mashes the Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia styles together while pulling from other fantasies and ultimately does its own thing. I was hooked from the beginning and fell in love with the characters. Eliot and Margot are the best. It's hilarious, it's unnerving, it's clever, it's touching, and it's great. Watch it.
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Skippy McPants posted:So, is this show good? I was thinking about bringing what's on Netflix, but then I saw it goes for a Chronicles of Narnia style of thing and got kinda hesitant. Season is rough, stick with it. I watched it because I loved the books and wanted to see the adaptation. It struggled with a small budget, and an uneven tone where it was trying to follow the plot of the books and not really succeeding all that well. As the season went on, there were small moments that really shined, and they began to focus on those. By season 2, the show become a wonderful guilty pleasure, and I eagerly watched it. Season 3 it's now probably the most fun, and funniest, show on television.
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Mar 10, 2018 22:22
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Skippy McPants posted:So, is this show good? I was thinking about bringing what's on Netflix, but then I saw it goes for a Chronicles of Narnia style of thing and got kinda hesitant. It's more a send-up of Narnia than it is legitimate Narnia. Like every time some Narnia like thing happens it's coupled with something hilarious, dumb, hosed up or often all three. (When it's dumb, the characters know it's dumb, it's not unintentional). Also the characters also grow, a lot. They don't stay where they start. Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Mar 10, 2018 22:34
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Nihonniboku posted:Season is rough, stick with it. It's a legit show after about 5 episodes. But i don't think it's a slog.
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Mar 10, 2018 23:40
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The Chronicles of Self-Interested Assholes (and Narnia).
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Mar 11, 2018 00:05
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Stank posted:My only complaint about this episode is that it was billed as a musical episode for the past month on instagram and then there were only 3 songs. Skippy McPants posted:So, is this show good? I was thinking about bringing what's on Netflix, but then I saw it goes for a Chronicles of Narnia style of thing and got kinda hesitant.
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Mar 11, 2018 10:42
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Blazing Ownager posted:It's more a send-up of Narnia than it is legitimate Narnia. Like every time some Narnia like thing happens it's coupled with something hilarious, dumb, hosed up or often all three. (When it's dumb, the characters know it's dumb, it's not unintentional). Fillory was originally supposed to be Narnia but Grossman changed it so he could do more stuff without being beholden to being a work of parody
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Mar 11, 2018 15:02
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Party God Josh is the best character.
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Rhyno posted:Party God Josh is the best character. Stoked for Josh not to appear in any more episodes. Edit: that sounds mean, but like, he's a normal fine character that we don't need to learn anymore about him and this would be a hilarious point to drop him anothergod fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Mar 11, 2018 |
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Tiggum posted:I think not knowing that probably helped my enjoyment of it. If I'd been expecting a musical episode I'd have been incredibly disappointed, but since I had no expectations I couldn't be. I can't help but understand what you're saying. I on the other hand was going "I'm really not in the mood for a full on musical right now, but I want to catch up" was pleasantly meant with an episode that had a couple songs in it but was decidedly not a musical. And not just from the lack of music. The characters that were singing were doing so because of the story, not some odd metanarrative reason to sing their emotions. Hell they weren't even singing their emotions, they were singing cover songs. Tiggum posted:The first season is awful, but you probably still need to watch it to enjoy the rest because it sets up so much about characters that the stuff they do later probably wouldn't make sense if you didn't already have a good sense of who they are and what they've been through. I wouldn't say the first season is awful at all, though honestly I think the whole show truly gets into gear when Julia is raped because that's when the show goes from a decent show that feels kind of safe and like they'd not do anything TOO hosed up, just a little off, to holy poo poo this gets dark. It just gets darker and darker from there and by the end of season 1 you've got a great split between this comedic tone with tons of stuff loaded with magical whimsy and 'holy gently caress is this messed up' I can't help but find fascinating. So quote Margo from this season, "She'd probably fly in on some whimsical creature, then start ripping out throats." Magicians in a nutshell. ZorajitZorajit posted:Fillory was originally supposed to be Narnia but Grossman changed it so he could do more stuff without being beholden to being a work of parody I didn't know that! That said, I do think the biggest reason for the change bar none is definitely not wanting to turn a real historical person into a pedophile with a child torture ghost house. That'd definitely step over some lines if using a real historical person. Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Mar 11, 2018 |
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Mar 11, 2018 20:44
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I thought the first season got dark at times what with characters turning tricks for magic. Lol I made a pun
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Blazing Ownager posted:I can't help but understand what you're saying. I on the other hand was going "I'm really not in the mood for a full on musical right now, but I want to catch up" was pleasantly meant with an episode that had a couple songs in it but was decidedly not a musical. Yeah, that was kind of my take too. I'm not a big fan of "musical episodes" and was dreading the standard forced gimmick episode. So the fact that they actually didn't do that and just had a couple of numbers with a purpose actually was a huge relief to me and probably made me like the episode more.
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Mar 11, 2018 22:28
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zeal posted:alice This is too good to not get noticed.
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I like that they justified the music and dubbing through the use of magic, once they have their party trick magic of course they'd be able to make people hear songs and enhance their voices with studio recording-level instant dubbing. Slytherin Hermoine really sums up Alice so drat well, good work. Julia's well on her way to being just straight up Harry Potter at this point as someone with a lovely past but who's trying to do the right thing, and they are both characters whose respective traumas loom large over their entire lives.
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Just looked up the title for this week's episode.... hoo boy. Was there a preview anywhere?
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ZorajitZorajit posted:Just looked up the title for this week's episode.... hoo boy. Was there a preview anywhere? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-b0E-gXbS8 Shuffle fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Mar 14, 2018 |
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Mar 14, 2018 15:51
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Mar 15, 2018 02:07
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Was that Colonel Tigh? Him drawling our “dont worry” sounds very much like him.
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Mar 15, 2018 02:11
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Yes, that was Michael Hogan. He certainly looks like he lost a lot of weight, dude was scrawny.
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Mar 15, 2018 02:21
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The "head come off" machine seems like something that should have been foreseen.
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Mar 15, 2018 02:36
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The fillory faeries suck but gently caress of that wasn’t cathartic. gently caress those slavers.
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muscles like this! posted:gif of a crab with a knife? It's how I feel VVV: That seemed to me like a reference to the Persephone story, where she could come and go from Hades as long as she didn't eat anything while down there. Penny eating the cupcake is him resigning himself to never leaving the underworld. ShakeZula fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Mar 15, 2018 |
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Mar 15, 2018 04:15
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wonderin' what's in those cupcakes.
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Grognan posted:wonderin' what's in those cupcakes. Over/under on some kind of pomegranate seed deal here?
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Yeah with Hades popping up that cupcake was 100% glazed with a pomegranate reduction.
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Mar 15, 2018 06:16
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Norwegian Rudo posted:Julia had a not selfish and well known reason for her actions, they just happened to run counter to the group's interests for a while. That has been resolved and is not an issue any more. Can you please explain the "not selfish" part of literally consumed by a thirst for vengeance above all else?
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theCalamity posted:The fillory faeries suck but gently caress of that wasn’t cathartic. gently caress those slavers. Oh yeah. When the Fairy Queen was giving her violent uprising speech, I was like "Hey! This is the first time she's said poo poo like this I can totally agree with." Also I think it does add some depth to the Faeries to know that they had a reason to hate humans and magicians, and that their entire realm was created to escape them in the first place. Also how they are weak and vulnerable if their deals can be broken. It goes a long way towards giving them some depth. I have a feeling the solution is obviously going to be the Faeries being given some land in Fillory and ultimately allying with them.
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Woden posted:I'm hoping the fairies get genocided via key theft. That does seem like the sort of thing Slytherin Hermione would do, now she's on the quest...
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How are fairies weak without deals if they have magic? Seems like that would put them ahead of non-magic types like the Lorians. Also, what do we think will happen to Irene, the lady who escaped the red
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Blazing Ownager posted:Oh yeah. When the Fairy Queen was giving her violent uprising speech, I was like "Hey! This is the first time she's said poo poo like this I can totally agree with." Yeah, I kept thinking she was going to say to kill all the humans or magicians or something, but when she actually said slavers instead I was like "wait, yeah, that actually sounds like a good thing"
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User posted:Can you please explain the "not selfish" part of literally consumed by a thirst for vengeance above all else? She wanted to stop him from doing it to other people, which we saw him doing, repeatedly.
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Norwegian Rudo posted:She wanted to stop him from doing it to other people, which we saw him doing, repeatedly. Bullshit. If he promised never to hurt another soul ever again in some kind of binding geas sort of way it wouldn't have reduced her thirst for vengeance an iota. Keeping him from doing it again is a nice bonus, but it clearly wasn't her motivation.
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zeal posted:woo colonel tigh Dean Fogg is a cylon confirmed.
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Fen for breakout character of the year. squidgee posted:Dean Fogg is a cylon confirmed. I have this thought every time
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Fenn has had some high points this season for sure. I wonder if she’s not going to end up ruling Fillory, or die trying of course. Other than that though, this episode kind of felt like a breather after the last couple and before the season wraps. But I did like Hades’ “magic is a carrot” speech, and the set up for other worlds to move on to.
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Blazing Ownager posted:I wouldn't say the first season is awful at all, though honestly I think the whole show truly gets into gear when Julia is raped Not downplaying this at all, but I think the horror episode at the Chatwin house Martin is raped. Eliot's response (then later juxtaposed with Julia) is when the show found its voice.
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